Will Windows 7 64 bit play old games like Starcraft?

[Indoobidubly]

And Warcraft II, and Total Annihilation? Basically games from the mid to late 90's.

Thanks.

[Mieky242]

I have personally not had a problem with Starcraft, I'm not sure about the other ones though.

[ahmz]

yea, why not? the oldest game im playing on it is age of empires

if it doesnt work well then u always have XP mode but it should be fine

[+Chsoriano Subscriber²]

I think it depends on what graphics card you have. I always have problems with ATI cards with old games. Games like StarCraft, Age of Empires II, System Shock 2, etc. have color issues. It's almost hit and miss though. Some times it works, some times it doesn't. I've also noticed that setting screen resolution and color settings (like with resman) before you start the game sometimes helps.

Anyway, I don't play those games often, so it doesn't really bother me. I have XP on another partition anyway too.

[Indoobidubly]

Thanks everyone.

[+ir0nw0lf Subscriber²]

Running Nvidia 8800GT on Win 7 32-bit and 64-bit. Starcraft has washed out looking colors or other color issues and a few other games are the same way. No clue why or how to fix.

[+Chsoriano Subscriber²]

Running Nvidia 8800GT on Win 7 32-bit and 64-bit. Starcraft has washed out looking colors or other color issues and a few other games are the same way. No clue why or how to fix.

Have you tried manually setting the resolution (to the game's max supported res) with something like resman before starting the game? It's helped me a couple of times.

However, my roommate even has some of the color issues on Windows Xp with his ATI card too.

[GreatStalin]

Just like to add that I'm currently using an ATI card with no issues on Win-7 64bit with games such as Starcraft, AoE, AoE2, Diablo, etc.!

The only game I've had issues with have been Gothic (first one). Gothic 2 doesn't work too well on a NVidia card on Win 7, from what I've seen/heard.

[zivan56]

With an 8800GT on Win7 32 bit, I have colour issues with all older games: AoE II/III (playable but ugly), Starcraft (flashing pink, unplayable). I just tried them for kicks to see if they work though...didn't try to see if there was a fix/patch.

[+Chsoriano Subscriber²]

Just like to add that I'm currently using an ATI card with no issues on Win-7 64bit with games such as Starcraft, AoE, AoE2, Diablo, etc.!

The only game I've had issues with have been Gothic (first one). Gothic 2 doesn't work too well on a NVidia card on Win 7, from what I've seen/heard.

What drivers are you using? Oh, and is it a crossfire setup?

[splur]

At least for me, no issues. Starcraft has weird colors in the menus, but actually gameplay the colors become fine. You should be fine with older games that don't require IPX to play.

[GreatStalin]

What drivers are you using? Oh, and is it a crossfire setup?

Sorry for the delay - cooking!

I'm currently using 9.9, and it's just a single card.

[drbobiii]

To run Starcraft without color issues, close explorer before launching the game. Or put a .bat file in your Starcraft directory:

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
Starcraft.exe
start C:\Windows\explorer.exe

[YounGMessiah]

Man I miss Starcraft!

*Gonna find old cd*

[Ivan_huahua]

yes it can be

so,WOW,CS,....

in my computer,i'm allways run WOW,

[Ci7]

yes it can be

so,WOW,CS,....

in my computer,i'm allways run WOW,

and WOW made in the 90s ?

[Ivan_huahua]

and WOW made in the 90s ?

i'm sorry

i don't see it........^.^

[Chrysalis]

And Warcraft II, and Total Annihilation? Basically games from the mid to late 90's.

Thanks.

most likely yes, I played final fantasy 7 on it fine and that game was designed for windows 95.

The issue I expect would be to do with EAX sound. You might lose EAX features unless you have a xifi card where I believe creative written a program to add the feature back.

[still1]

Yes, It can.